If Emanuel Is Out, Who’s Next Chief of Staff?
The fire-breathing — as his reputation would have it — Chief of Staff of the Obama Administration has seemed to keep a low profile of late. Indications are that Rahm Emanuel...
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“The Kangaroo Touch” Revives Australian Preemie
Called “the kangaroo touch” in Australia and also “kangaroo care,” the method used by Kate Ogg in Sydney last spring worked almost like a miracle. She had just given birth prematurely...
NBC Nightly News Williams Grills Obama on Birth Certificate, Religious Affiliation Polls
NBC’s Nightly News last Sunday, August 29, featured an interview in New Orleans on the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, between reporter Brian Williams and President Barack Obama. After bringing up...
Chilean Miners Pray and Sing National Anthem to Keep Up Morale
Thirty-three miners, who were trapped some 2,300 feet underground in northern Chile since August 5 when the main access tunnel collapsed where they had been working, have been informed they may...
Peace Activists Attempt to Stop Iraq Deployment at Ft. Hood
According to the Daily Paul website, early Monday morning, August 23, five anti-war protesters wearing black shirts that read “Disobey,” attempted to block six buses carrying troops from Ft. Hood’s 3rd...
Pentagon Denounces Taliban Claims About PFC Bergdahl
According to one of his captors and Afghan intelligence officials, missing U.S. Army Private Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, has become a Muslim and is training Taliban fighters in bomb-making and...
Former D.A. Garza Indicted in Texas for Misuse of Funds
Joe Frank Garza, a former district attorney for the Texas counties of Brooks and Jim Wells, was indicted late Wednesday, August 18, by a special Jim Wells County Grand Jury.? ...
Hot Time at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern
Just after midnight on Saturday, July 24, at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern — “Where everyone is treated like a regular” — a very irregular event occurred. After 13 years of routinely...
Dan Rostenkowski, R.I.P.
Famous for once saying that in Chicago, politics is “a blood sport,” former U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski, 82, passed away on August 11 after being diagnosed last summer with lung cancer....
Britain’s Marie Stopes International Offers Free Abortions as “Job Perk”
As one of the agency's major abortion providers, Marie Stopes International receives about £30 million a year from Britain’s National Health Service towards its “services.” As if this business was not...
Public Support for War in Afghanistan Falls
A USA Today/Gallup poll released last week found that public support for President Obama’s Afghanistan war policy declined from 48 percent in February to 36 percent. USA Today attributed the 12-percent...
Praying Pro-life Student Arrested in Chicago
On Saturday, July 3, 25-year-old Northwestern University graduate student Joseph Holland was arrested in downtown Chicago for praying the rosary outside a Planned Parenthood facility. The accusation was that he had...
Oldest American Family Farm Goes Up for Sale
Though there is a slight dispute about the “oldest” family farm title going to the Shirley Plantation in Charles City, Virginia (founded in 1613 — up and running by 1638) or...
Battling the Oil Spill in Battle Creek, Michigan
There now is an oil leak in the northern part of the United States about which to worry — in Battle Creek, Michigan. Although there were reports that some residents complained...
In Elmhurst, Illinois, the “Rolling Eyes” Have It
What started as an ordinary meeting of the Elmhurst, Illinois Finance, Council Affairs and Administrative Service Committee on the evening of May 17 to discuss a proposed $30,000 lobbyist contract, had...